Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
abundantly filled with especially living things;
- Example: "the Third World's teeming millions"- Example: "the teeming boulevard"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Teeming \Teem"ing\, a.
Prolific; productive.
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Teeming buds and cheerful appear. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Teem \Teem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Teeming.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]m.
See Team.]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a
plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen. --Shak.
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2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to
overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
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His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to
cover former villainy. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which
teem in our time. --F. Harrison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
teeming
adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the
Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"